The mandatory isolation period for positive COVID-19 cases has been reduced from seven to five days - and the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment will reduce too. 7NEWS
The three-month extension of the paid pandemic leave is set to expire at the end of September. Abanese remained tight-lipped as to whether it would expire, or be extended again.amid backlash about communities struggling during Australia’s Omicron wave.
“We’ll work those issues through as a general view that we need to ensure people are looked after who need being looked after ... that’s why we’re meeting in a fortnight,” he said. “The reality ... is that kind of support can’t continue forever it’s also contingent on some of the other ways that we’re responding to this health and economic challenge,” he said on Wednesday.The Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment is a lump sum payment for those who can’t work or earn an income due to COVID-19.Anyone who must self-isolate or quarantine due to COVID-19, as required by your state or territory government, or is caring for someone who has to do so.
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